Look it up

Today in church we sang a new song, Come, Behold the Wondrous Mystery.



I don't know how new it is, but it was new for me at least.

The first verse includes the lines: Look to Christ who condescended, took on flesh to ransom us.

That sounded bad to me. In context, I could tell the line meant to look towards Christ who came down from Heaven to be man to die for us. But I had always heard the word condescended in a bad term, like someone in a higher position talking down to you because of your lower position.

Turns out there is more than one definition in the dictionary.

The third definition of condescended reads

to put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior

That makes a lot more sense.